Digital Knowledge - A Philosophical Investigation

Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going.

List of contents

Preface 1. Digital Epistemology: A Research Programme Motivated 2. From Digital Information to Digital Knowledge 3. The Nature of Digital Knowledge: A Bi-Level Account 4. The Dark Side of Digital Knowledge: Scepticism and Defeat 5. A Digital Epistemology of Machine Learning 6. A Digital Epistemology of Big Data. Bibliography Index

About the author

J. Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he is the deputy director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. His books The Philosophy of Group Polarization and The Epistemology of Group Disagreement (both with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal), and Well-Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (with Patrick Bondy), are also available from Routledge. He is also the author of Autonomous Knowledge (2022) and PI on an AHRC-funded project on digital epistemology (2022-2025).

Product details

• Authors: J. Adam (University of Glasgow Carter, Carter J. Adam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9780367566906
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56690-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; PHILOSOPHY / General, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Legal aspects of IT, Library & Information Sciences, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Library and information sciences / Museology, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects